gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

there was a dude on LW who convinced himself that because Oort cloud comets move so slowly relative to the sun, it was really easy for them to start falling into it. Problem is you have the other term in the equation for angular momentum , a huge fucking average orbit.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

don't forget you need a hell of a lot of delta-v to get an orbit that intersects with the sun...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

The author should be ashamed of himself for not asking the basic question of how to cool these motherfuckers

edit to add: the comments are all over the cooling issue

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nuclear wonk Chery Rofer talks a bit about the plutonium fire sale to Saltman in this piece, after some faff about Putin trolling Trump into resuming nuclear testing:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/things-that-go-bump-in-the-night

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Bungie made Marathon before Halo and it's basically the same plot - supersoldier aided/hindered by AI/s fights an alien force consisting of many "integrated" species. It's a cheap way of making different enemies that are all antagonists.

OFC why the colony ship Marathon needed a supersoilder on tap is never explained. After a while our protag gets involved in a rebellion against the Pfor's leaders and then we get Infinity which is just weird. Oh and there's an eldrich horror living in a star too.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 4 weeks ago

I have a webserver using Ubuntu. Are any of the popular LLM-poisoning solutions packaged for that?

I ran across this today and while I had fun mashing together the Sequences, Moby Dick and 1984, a pre-packaged solution would be even better.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago

Via a prev sneer, here's a Bloomberg post about call center workers being accused of being LLMs:

https://archive.is/K3N51

I used to work in a call-center adjacent industry and the amount of crap some employers used to make sure their workers sounded as much as robots as possible was astounding.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago

nah same for me

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Guys, it's a problem that GenPop thinks "AI" is useless, because that means they will deny the inevitable coming existence of the Evil Robot God and make it harder to stop it

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W2dTrfTsGtFiwG5hM/origins-and-dangers-of-future-ai-capability-denial

The whole thing has to be read to be believed. But there are some fun nuggets:

  • saying that an evil robot god is coming is Rational. Doubting that is a conspiracy theory
  • slagging flat-earthers on LW is truly the pot calling the kettle black
  • "I can imagine a world where AI becomes extremely good at flipping burgers or driving cars well before it learns how to write software or detect cancer. In that case, I think it's a lot harder to deny its achievements. But in our world, a lot of AI's greatest achievements take context to understand, like protein folding or playing board games." - yeah sure buddy all the pro board game players are quaking in their boots
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did not know Farage was gay

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Self-identifying as "progressive" and being anti-copyright and thus pro-AI is something I've seen before online.

I've never charged money for my creative output, but my "moral right" as an author/creator is very important to me.

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